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The Short Works of George Meredith

CHAPTER VIII
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The drug you have swallowed to cheat yourself will not bear the shock awaiting you tomorrow with the first light.

Hear these birds! When next they sing, you will be broad awake, and of me, and the worship and service I would have dedicated to you, I do not...

it is a spectral sunset of a day that was never to be!--awake, and looking on what?
Back from a monstrous villainy to the forlorn wretch who winked at it with knots in a string.
Count them then, and where will be your answer to heaven?
I begged it of you, to save you from those blows of remorse; yes, terrible!' 'Oh, no!' 'Terrible, I say!' 'You are mistaken, Mr.Camwell.It is my soother.

I tell my beads on it.' 'See how a persistent residence in this place has made a Pagan of the purest soul among us! Had you...

but that day was not to lighten me! More adorable in your errors that you are than others by their virtues, you have sinned through excess of the qualities men prize.


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